[_nub3]

it doesnt work that way. you have that copy of your "consciousness" as long as you are awake. when being in deep sleep - opposed to REM phases where brain waves are measurable, or when highly dosed with narcotics such as for heavy surgery you (in the sense of your consciousness) do not exist anymore - no brainwaves. when you wake up, to be precise when you enter REM phases, your mind slowly boots up again. awake, you're reaching out to you assets, read memories, and cross checking references allows you to re-establish confidence who you are.

think of firefox. you start it and it "lives" in the memory of the computer. however, turned off it is gone. the process is eliminated and purged from memory. when restarted, however, it remembers your browser history, sessions and passwords. still it is a new process.

basically this is what happens each night when we sleep. every morning a new you wakes up.

so when a cloned asset of cross linked (aka relational) memories is spinned up, the resulting process does not have a distinct possibility to determine if it is being cloned. it just have it same associative pathways in its wetware as the original. yet it will believe being the original and also act accordingly. when you ask outsiders who know you, they wont be able to make out a difference, and label the clone as original. the clone (depending on the age of the information) will also believe it is original as it knows your passwords, your mental setup (and lives by that because of reasons) and it remembers whatever has happened to you, too.

this can only mean one thing: our so called consciousness is a fake conclusion. yes, cogito ergo sum, but only for the moment. new day, new me.

[qamplor]

You are assuming there is no contiguity of self during sleep, but present no evidence for this idea. There's plenty of evidence, however, that sleep is closer to an altered state than a cessation/reset of state. The brain is intact and active during all stages of sleep. We dream every night and merely forget most of them, and remembered dreams are certainly contiguous with waking consciousness.

The analogy between "sleep" in biological brains and "sleep" functions in modern operating systems is only that - an analogy.

[omginternets]

> basically this is what happens each night when we sleep. every morning a new you wakes up.

Nonsense.

[_nub3]

Think of Firefox, same hardware (body), same profile (nerological pathways), yet a new process when restarted, b/c no brain activity measured in deep sleep, only with REM phases.

edit: typo